Browse our sample topics for skill-based training, group workshops, and keynotes. We enjoy partnering with our clients to customize existing programs or design a bespoke program from scratch, with the goal of best meeting participants’ needs. Optional pre-reads can be provided to attendees.

Sample Skills Training Topics
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In this workshop, you will explore effective team leadership as a combination of habits, mindsets, and behaviors. You will learn to adopt a coaching and mentoring mindset, integrate empathy into your leadership style, and discover best practices for launching and leading high-performing teams and deal processes. Delegation skills will be a key focus, including clear communication and problem-solving for delegation issues.
Learn the best strategies for using feedback to guide individuals toward greatness, encompassing both praise and constructive criticism. You'll explore the ideal mix of positive and developmental feedback, learn valuable frameworks like Radical Candor, and understand the importance of tailoring feedback. The workshop will also address the limitations of the “feedback sandwich” approach and provide you with strategies for excelling in “Connective Leadership,” which includes influencing via managing up.
Discover how to manage yourself better to take more control over your time and productivity. Use the Eisenhower Matrix to prioritize urgent and important tasks. Use intentionality and strategy to manage your time, carve out dedicated slots for high-value work, and adopt productive habits like time blocking, task batching, and weekly reviews. Become proactive in “designing" your professional and personal time to make the most of the 168 hours you have every week.
Feedback can often be interpreted as criticism rather than the gift that it is. This workshop helps juniors reframe feedback as guidance toward greatness and learn how to implement it to level up and become a valued team member who makes a manager’s life easier. We’ll focus on using judgment, being proactive, soliciting feedback, and how to account for differences in work and communication styles. The result is a team of juniors who not only know how to implement feedback when given but actively seek it and welcome it, leading to a culture of more continuous improvement throughout your organization.
This workshop is designed to optimize the impact of mentorship programs by equipping mentors with the foundational frameworks and practical skills to create deep and impactful relationships with their mentees. Mentors will learn the three hats of mentorship and the differences between mentorship and sponsorship. We'll review effective strategies for initiating and nurturing mentor-mentee relationships, including fast-tracking trust and making matched relationships feel more organic. We provide a mentorship timeline, first-meeting agendas, and other action items, improving the experience of mentees while contributing to mentors' professional growth.
Unlock the power of your key relationships to drive your company's growth and career success. This workshop begins by reshaping your perspective on networking and then moves into actionable strategies. These include mapping and evaluating your current network, cultivating sustainable networking habits, and optimizing the benefits of conferences and events. Discover the art of progressing beyond small talk, fostering more meaningful interactions that enhance and solidify relationships. Elevate your relationship-building skills to forge a robust network that provides valuable information and impactful connections and partnerships.
It is never too early or late in a career to curate a powerful "board of advisors" to guide your development. Mentors and sponsors are key members of that board, yet these relationships often need to be clarified or developed to the depth they could be. In this session, you will learn how to assemble a board of advisors, the key distinctions between mentors and sponsors ("mentors talk with you and sponsors talk about you"), how to deepen both organic and matched relationships, and how to make yourself "sponsor worthy" to attract the attention of those well-positioned to advocate on your behalf. By investing time and effort in cultivating these relationships, you can accelerate your professional growth and focus on your career goals.
This workshop for junior employees will introduce them to the foundational principles I teach in-depth to mid-level and senior leaders, emphasizing receiving and implementing feedback effectively. I also cover intentional up-leveling, growth versus fixed mindsets, building a personal brand, and utilizing mentors and sponsors. Juniors will learn the habits and behaviors to implement now to grow into influential leaders and feel empowered by being in the driver’s seat of their careers. They will also learn tools to make their managers’ lives easier and have more impact in their role.
This workshop combines the essential practices and mindset shifts to achieve peak performance as an individual and a team. Team members will focus on “what” they do and “why” it matters. The training will also cover team management and self-management strategies that enable each person to play their role more effectively in growing the pie/revenue generation and how to approach day-to-day work from this perspective. This workshop is especially relevant to team offsites and beginning/middle/end-of-year workdays as team members focus on implementing feedback in mid-year or end-of-year reviews.

Sample Speaking and Keynotes Topics
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Transitioning from working person to working parent can be one of the most exciting and transformational times in a professional's life and career. It can also be one of the most challenging to navigate. Whether this is imminent or many years away, it’s essential to understand the current parental leave landscape and the best practices for successfully handling the distinct stages before, during, and after leave. This session will examine this topic from multiple perspectives: individual (yourself and your partner), work team, and organizational culture. The emphasis will be on preparing you to advocate for yourself and ways to influence the broader parental leave conversation in your organization if you so choose.
Explore the intricacies of navigating dual-career relationships in our engaging workshop, designed for couples striving to juggle their professional and personal lives better. Understand the most common models of dual-career partnership, which can inform how you define success through life’s changing chapters. We'll shift the focus from work/life balance to work/life fit, addressing the “design challenge” of integrating rewarding careers into a rich, fulfilling life. Through interactive discussions and Q&A, this workshop offers valuable strategies for couples to “have it all together.”
Learn to enhance your leadership and problem-solving skills by examining and refining your automatic thinking patterns. Our mindset is one of the most critical performance factors in any given scenario. Yet, we often need to be made aware of how we frame situations and how our perspective either helps or hurts practical actions we could be taking. Mindset awareness and management is a tool used by executive coaches, and in this session, you will learn how to coach yourself to be more flexible and adaptive in your thinking. Through practical techniques, real-world examples, and interactive exercises, you'll walk away with more awareness, confidence, and ways to get unstuck.
In a world where time is finite and precious, it's easy to feel pulled in countless directions, leaving little room for what truly matters. But here's the secret: you have more control over your time than you might realize. In this talk, we'll unveil the keys to reclaiming your most valuable resource—time. We'll guide you through strategies to identify and safeguard the moments that align with your deepest priorities. With powerful tools like the Wheel of Life and the Eisenhower Matrix, you'll gain a panoramic view of your priorities in work and life and learn ways to carve out time for what matters most.
Regardless of career stage, there are many ways to exhibit leadership. In this workshop, we will apply a 4-step framework for making the most of leadership moments we find ourselves in or create intentionally. The emphasis will be on cultivating internal confidence and exhibiting leadership behaviors that others see and hear. Topics include defining “leadership” and why leadership is an action (not a position), framing leadership development as a continual process of growth, and pinpointing your upcoming leadership moments, referred to as "Opportunities to Shine" (OTS). Participants will have time to reflect and walk away with action items they choose to implement going forward.

"The workshop provided tangible and specific actions the participants can now use to navigate their careers strategically. Based on the energy in the networking session, it was apparent that everyone was ready to get started on their plans."
—Sponsor, “Strategies for Successful Career Navigation” Workshop at JP Morgan Chase
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